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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Priska L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Priska L., who was born in 1916 in Stropkov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia), the fourth of five children. She recounts moving to Zlaté Moravce; a wonderful childhood; her family's assimilated lifestyle; training as a teacher; a teaching position in 1936 in Pezinok, then in Čataj in 1938; termination of her position due to anti-Jewish laws; teaching at a private language academy in Bratislava; marriage in 1941; deportation of her parents and one sister in 1942 (they did not survive); her other sister posing as a non-Jew (she survived); arrest by Hlink...

  2. Hans R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, the oldest of four children. He recalls attending Hebrew school; its closure due to antisemitic laws; harassment by former playmates; his parents losing their jobs; attending a Jewish trade school; brief incarceration with his father and grandfather in Sachsenhausen in 1938; fleeing to the Netherlands in 1941; returning home at his father's request; working in the Jewish cemetery, then in a factory; deportation with his family in October 1942; jumping from the train at his father's urging (he never saw his family again...

  3. Annelies H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annelies H., who was born in a small town near Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1924. She recalls her father's arrest in 1933; his release after he sold his business; the family's move to Bodolz; fleeing with her mother and brother to Scheveningen, Netherlands; her father's death in March 1934 after he joined them; her brother's refusal to emigrate in 1938 and 1939; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor at a fur factory; transfer with her mother and brother to Vught in 1943; her transfer to Amsterdam (she never saw her mother and brother again); assistance from...

  4. Leon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925, one of five children. He recounts harassment by Hitler Youth; expulsion from school at age eleven due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish school until age thirteen; his bar mitzvah; learning masonry; deportation of Polish Jews; working in a Krupp factory; deportation of his older brother and two uncles; round-up en route to work in March 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Monowitz; seeing his younger brother once; hospitalization in Auschwitz for pneumonia; transfer to Jaworzno; exchanging places with a mi...

  5. Adele W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922, the oldest of eight children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-2558), Ms. H. recalls transfer from Malchow to Taucha; traveling after the war, including to Budapest and Cremona after the war; her uncle organizing a ship for their illegal emigration to Palestine in 1946; and sharing her story with her family. She shows photographs.

  6. Koppel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Koppel K., who was born in Bia?obrzegi, Poland in 1928 to an affluent, Hasidic family. He recalls attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; joyous holiday celebrations; German invasion in 1939; his father serving on the Judenrat; his round-up when a German was killed (they never saw him again); ghettoization; obtaining food from his father's non-Jewish associates and the Kommandant's sons; the Kommandant warning them of a deportation; the Kommandant separating him from his mother and sisters (he never saw them again); slave labor locally; transfer to...

  7. Jakov D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakov D., who recounts moving to Belgrade from Sarajevo in 1937; attending school; briefly fleeing when Belgrade was bombed in April 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; his parents obtaining documents as non-Jews from Serbian friends; hiding most of the time; Serbian friends suggesting they leave due to pending deportations; traveling with his parents and sister to Niš; a Serb official providing them and two other Jewish families with an apartment, new identification documents, and food; moving to Donji Matejevac in 1944 to escape severe bombings; local peasants caring f...

  8. Paul C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul C., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1917 and raised in K?obuck. He discusses prewar antisemitism; participating in Zionist activites; increasing antisemitism resulting in the decline of his parents' business; German occupation; forced labor as a painter, which gave him special privileges; ghettoization; his marriage in 1941; deportations, including his father and niece; and transport to Blechhammer with his wife. Mr. C. recounts changing names with a friend so he could remain near his wife; experiences in Gra?ditz and Reichenbach; working while one person...

  9. Max M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max M., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia, in 1924. He recalls his education; prewar antisemitism; his father's reluctance to emigrate; Soviet occupation in 1940; nationalization of the family business; a forced move to the suburb Kaiserwald; the German invasion; increasing antisemitic restrictions; and his mother's deportation in July 1941. Mr. M. describes ghettoization; seeking indoor work to obtain food; his uncle's disappearance; the Judenrat's forced choice between collaboration or death "in a lawless society"; Aktions in late 1941 when some 30,000 Jews were shot in...

  10. Edith W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith W., who was born in Balka?ny, Hungary in 1931. She recounts her father's rabbinical position in several towns in Czechoslovakia including Jels?ava; anti-Jewish laws including expulsion from their town after Hungarian occupation; living in Rejc?kov; the births of several siblings; exclusion from school; deportations; her family's exemption because other exempted Jews needed a rabbi; deportation of her grandmother in 1942; her mother obtaining Hungarian passports for them; her mother smuggling a younger brother to relatives in Hungary (he did not survive); moving ...

  11. Kevin Q. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kevin Q., a Catholic, who was born in Bronx, New York in 1918, left training for the priesthood in 1941, enlisted in 1942, and served in the United States Army 45th Infantry Division in World War II. He recounts deployment in Normandy; the Battle of the Bulge; entering Dachau five days after its liberation; being emotionally overwhelmed; chaotic conditions; corpses scattered everywhere; soldiers sharing rations with prisoners resulting in their deaths; speaking with Catholic clergy in Latin; discovering German doctors disguised as inmates to evade incarceration as pot...

  12. Gitta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gitta W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1934. She notes vague memories of being loved and hearing marching in the Berlin streets; traveling to Belgium; living in a house with her parents and relatives; German invasion; fleeing to Paris, then Nice; her malaise at seeing her parents very upset; difficulties in school; her father and uncle escaping when the families were arrested; release with her cousin; hiding with her father, uncle, and cousin; escaping after detection by the Gestapo; hiding with other Jews in a small village and Marseille; placement in a convent...

  13. Rebecca P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rebecca P., who was born in Poland in 1920, one of five children. She recalls attending a village school; living with an aunt in order to attend school in Zamość; German invasion then withdrawal a week later, followed by Soviet invasion, their withdrawal, then German occupation; one brother leaving with the Soviets; another hiding with his wife and child as non-Jews; escaping with her mother from a round-up; hiding in the woods; neighbors bringing them food; round-up to Izbica; ghettoization; marriage; her husband's killing two months later; her mother's deportation...

  14. Josip E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josip E., who was born in Yugoslavia in 1927. He recalls they were one of three families in a small village; attending high school in Osijek; returning home in 1941 when Croatia allied itself with Germany; his father's deportation; the Jewish community arranging for him to live with a Jewish family in Osijek when all Jews were deported, including his mother; moving to a relative in Slavonska Poz?ega; arrest by the Ustas?a; deportation to Stara Gradis?ka; slave labor; a cousin sharing bread; random killings; a public execution; transfer to Jasenovac; encountering an un...

  15. Israel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel R., who was born in Piotrko?w, Poland in 1927, one of nine children. He recalls attending Polish school and cheder; his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; one older sister leaving for the Soviet Union; his father being rounded-up and beaten; his return and death; ghettoization; forced factory labor outside the ghetto; obtaining extra food for his family; being detained in the factory; learning almost the entire town was deported to Treblinka, including his family; feeling he lived in a ghost town; transfer to Skarz?ysko; slave labor in a munitions factory; ho...

  16. Louis D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis D., who was born in the United States in 1922 and served in the Third Army's 301st Signal Operation Battalion in World War II. He recalls General Patton's orders that American soldiers view Buchenwald; entering the camp in April 1945, the day after its liberation; a Polish inmate who escorted them; the pervasive stench; emaciated prisoners; crematoria which were still warm; stacks of bodies; mass burial of the dead; the camp commander's residence where he saw lamp shades reputedly made of human skin; and General Patton's order that all local residents visit Buch...

  17. Frank B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. He recalls his family's affluence; pervasive antisemitism; his family's strong German identity; not feeling Jewish or observing any holidays; anti-Jewish restrictions changing that feeling; attending a Jewish school; emigration to Prague in 1938 (his father was a Czech citizen); attending Jewish school; German occupation in March 1939; his father's position in the Judenrat which protected them from deportation; participating in a Zionist youth group and Maccabi; working as a gardener in the Jewish cemetery; his bar mi...

  18. Adam M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1927. He describes his family fleeing to Belgium; their peaceful life; German invasion; fleeing to Montpellier; his father's arrest and release due to a French medal received in World War I Polish Army service; life in Le Bousquet-d'Orb from 1940 to 1943; participation in a children's transport, organized by Quakers, to the United States in 1942; its cancellation when the U.S. entered the war; and German occupation. Mr. M. recalls his parents' and brother's internment; their release due to his father's World War I service; h...

  19. Katherine A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Katherine A., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915. She recalls attending college in Grenoble and Paris due to antisemitic restrictions in Hungary; returning to visit her parents on September 1, 1939; not being able to leave due to the outbreak of war; organizing a French culture club; participating in a theater troupe; marriage in 1941; her husband's service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion beginning in April 1942 (she never saw him again); teaching Hungarian to the Swiss ambassador and his family; German occupation in March 1944; receiving protection from t...

  20. Jack K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack K., who was born in Novogrudok, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1929. He recalls a close relationship with his extended family; increasing antisemitism beginning in 1935; attending a Tarbut school; belonging to Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; being sent to his grandparents in Korelichi; returning home; finding their house and possessions destroyed; anti-Jewish restrictions; a mass killing of about fifty men; forced labor; ghettoization including those from surrounding towns; a mass shooting of all Jews except skilled workers; livi...